Jon Huntsman

About the author

Jon Huntsman was the founder and chairman of Huntsman Corporation, a global chemical company with over $12 billion in annual revenues. He served as a special assistant to President Nixon and was the first American to own a controlling interest in a business in the former Soviet Union. Huntsman sat on the boards of several public companies and founded the Huntsman Cancer Institute.

His son Jon Huntsman Jr. was elected Governor of Utah in 2004. Huntsman graduated from the University of Southern California and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.